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SV Staff  |  Mar 25, 2008  |  0 comments
Sony may be the No. 1 seller of LCD TVs around the world, but Sharp is tops in Japan, according to a survey of retailers conducted by Japanese newspaper Nikkei Business Daily. The paper asked four retailers to forecast demand for LCDs around April...
SV Staff  |  Mar 25, 2008  |  0 comments
A beautifully framed HDTV hanging on a living room wall is a lot like a work of art. It isn't that much of a stretch, then, to consider displaying works of art on an HDTV in the living room. That's the idea behind GalleryPlayer's partnership with...
SV Staff  |  Mar 26, 2008  |  0 comments
[THE FOLLOWING IS A REBUTTAL TO "POINT: BLU-RAY'S ALREADY OVER."] Corey, you ignorant misguided slut. Corey, you flannel-clad dilettante Corey . . . Dude, I understand your pain. We've all been there. You have, what mental health...
SV Staff  |  Mar 26, 2008  |  0 comments
[THE FOLLOWING IS THE FIRST STANCE IN A POINT-COUNTERPOINT DEBATE ABOUT THE FUTURE OF BLU-RAY. THE OPINION IS THAT OF TECH WRITER COREY GREENBERG. TO READ THE REBUTTAL, CLICK ON THE LINK AT THE END.] I don't know if I'm the first CE writer to say...
SV Staff  |  Mar 26, 2008  |  0 comments
Quick, to the Batcave! Fox Home Entertainment wants you to enjoy a souped-up Blu-ray version of the original Batman movie in the privacy of your home theater weeks before Warner's newer Batman Begins shows up in Blu-ray and The Dark Knight appears...
SV Staff  |  Mar 26, 2008  |  0 comments
Snail-mail DVD rental company Netflix hasn't officially said it plans to allow downloads of movies via Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console, but all clues point in that direction. Let's add them up, shall we? 1. Microsoft nixed Blu-ray on its game...
SV Staff  |  Mar 26, 2008  |  0 comments
Where did you buy your HDTV? Depending on your priorities and number of hours spent researching, you could have shopped at a chain store like Best Buy, a discount department store like Wal-Mart or Sears, or taken a risk and bought a set online from...
SV Staff  |  Mar 26, 2008  |  0 comments
Runco is showing a prototype of a weatherproof TV you can watch in direct sunlight. It’s really not that hard to make a TV that can weather a rainstorm, but making one that can compete with the sun? Now there’s a trick. Runco just may have pulled...
SV Staff  |  Mar 26, 2008  |  0 comments
Your hair doesn't grow faster when you watch HDTV, but it might make it seem like your follicles get clipped quicker when you're at Floyd's 99 Barbershop. Floyd's is one of the more prominent national chains in the throwback trend toward ole'...
SV Staff  |  Mar 27, 2008  |  0 comments
Something just wouldn't be quite right if middle-aged people approaching retirement grasped and adopted new technologies faster than their children. So it comes as no surprise that a study on that topic commissioned by Hallmark turned out just like...
SV Staff  |  Mar 27, 2008  |  0 comments
Nearly twenty million consumers are so eager to jump on the high-definition disc bandwagon this year that they can't be bothered to wait for a bargain. Even though a Sony executive all but promised that the price of Blu-ray players won't drop to...
SV Staff  |  Mar 27, 2008  |  0 comments
LG Display, an LCD-panel making offshoot of LG Electronics, is sniffing around for partners to help it sell more LCD TVs. One possible bedfellow is Amtran, the Taiwanese parent of U.S. everyman flat-screen brand Vizio. Pundits and investors don't...
SV Staff  |  Mar 27, 2008  |  0 comments
How is Toshiba managing to mourn the painful and expensive death of HD-DVD? Well, with a little bit of R&D therapy, it seems. Perhaps spending bucket-loads of cash on an adorable 11-inch robot of limited utility will soothe Toshiba's angst....
SV Staff  |  Mar 27, 2008  |  0 comments
If audio is recorded without the intention of being listened to, is it still a recording? American researchers in Paris are getting philosophical about a piece of etched paper they found which may contain the first ever piece of recorded audio. ...
SV Staff  |  Mar 28, 2008  |  0 comments
In the decades-old gender battle for the remote control, it appears women have begun to wrangle the device at a higher rate then men, especially when there's a digital video recorder involved. According to a new study from Solutions Research...

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